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In this week's episode, Mark examines the Chocolate Crisis of 2024. Cocoa prices have skyrocketed. The media is trying to paint this as another example of the ravages of Climate Change, but the market is making all of its typical adjustments to ensure that chocolate products continue to flow to consumers, and also making adjustments to improve the …
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Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy?
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Recently on Twitter, as a reaction to an FT post worrying about the growing debts of various governments, fans of MMT were posting screenshots from a May 2020 FT debate involving Stephanie Kelton. The implication was that Kelton had correctly predicted that government debt would be benign. Bob and guest Jonathan Newman dissent.Stephanie Kelton and …
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World War I: A Failure of State Elites | Ralph Raico
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When a war occurs, the government feels that it's obliged to propound a certain line about how the enemy was totally responsible for this war: "We never did anything wrong! The enemy has committed terrible atrocities!"Recorded at Mises University 2005 at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.Door Mises Institute
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On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Joe Rogan, and why he's right about America's dangerous "security" agencies.Discussed on the Show "The FBI and CIA Are Enemies of the American People" by Ryan McMaken https://Mises.org/RR_183_A"Cowardice, Not Courage, Led House Republicans …
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Chapter 5. Secession as a Path to Self-Determination
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Chapter 5 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 11. How Small Is Too Small?
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Chapter 11 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 4. Why the Classical Liberals Wanted Decentralization
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Chapter 4 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 12. When It Comes to National Defense, It’s More than Size that Matters
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Chapter 12 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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The Hazards of "Colorblind Equality" | Wanjiru Njoya
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While “colorblind equality” has a better ring to it than the DEI regime, nonetheless, the concept is unworkable and actually contributes to worsening racial outcomes.Narrated by Millian Quinteros.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 18. When Immigration Policy Was Decentralized
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Chapter 18 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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As Murray Rothbard noted, reason is a powerful tool to help us discern how to thrive in our world. Government, through propaganda and interference with education, seeks to stifle reason and replace it with obedience to the state.Narrated by Millian Quinteros.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 7 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 19. Why Indian Tribal Sovereignty Is Important
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Chapter 19 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Recent Iranian missile strikes on Israel in response to its earlier attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria have escalated the prospects of all-out war in the Middle East. There is an alternative to expanding the war: de-escalation.Narrated by Millian Quinteros.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 14. Why “One Man, One Vote” Doesn’t Work
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Chapter 14 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 2. Political Anarchy Is How the West Got Rich
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Chapter 2 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 3. Why Regimes Prefer Big States and Centralized Power
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Chapter 3 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 1. More Choices, More Freedom, Less Monopoly Power
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Chapter 1 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Postscript: A Tale of Two Megastates: Why the EU Is Better (In Some Ways) than the US
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Postscript to Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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For the past fifty years, Nigeria’s government has required young people to “serve” for a year under the National Youth Service Corp. This more resembles slavery than service.Narrated by Millian Quinteros.Door Mises Institute
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Hair of the Dog — Progressives in Congress Need Another Hit of Low Interest Rates | Artis Shepard
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As artificially low interest rates damage the economy, progressives in Congress demand more of the same. In the vernacular, they want the economy to “take the hair of the dog that bit them.” Of course, this only makes things worse in the long run—which is where we are today.Narrated by Millian Quinteros.…
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There has been much hysteria over the rise of artificial intelligence, much of it overblown and downright silly. No, AI is not about to impose tyranny on helpless humanity. Like all other technology, AI is a tool that can be used for good or ill.Narrated by Millian Quinteros.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 16. How Early Americans Decentralized Military Power
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Chapter 16 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 13. If America Splits Up, What Happens to the Nukes?
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Chapter 13 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 9. From Taxes to Trade, More Secession Means More Freedom
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Chapter 9 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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Introduction: Universal Rights, Locally Enforced
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Introduction to Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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In less than a century, Argentina went from being one of the world’s wealthiest nations to one that struggles with poverty and massive inflation. Human Action provides lasting wisdom to improve life in that country.Narrated by Millian Quinteros.Door Mises Institute
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Chapter 17. Before Roe v. Wade, Abortion Policy was a State and Local Matter
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Chapter 17 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Narrated by John Quattrucci.Door Mises Institute
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